Dress Rehearsal ETO (id:#56451)
Multi-Man Publishing (ASL Journal # 3 ID: J 52)
Komsomolets State Farm, USSR 1943-07-10 ()
53: A High Price to Pay (ASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition))
AD 8: Gruppo Mobile (AH:ASL Annual `91)
KURSK CG: Broadway to Prokhorovka (ASL Journal # 3)
J94: Kempf at Melikhovo (ASL Journal # 6)
T 9: The Niscemi-Biscari Highway (AH:The General # 28.1)
S9: Ambitious Assault (ASL Starter Kit #2)
S11: A Long Way To Go (ASL Starter Kit #2)
HB CG 3: Hell's Bridgehead CG 3 (Critical Hit # 6.4)
CH 18: Raging Furnace (Critical Hit # 2)
HB 1: Psel River Line / Last Line Before Oboyan (Hell's Bridgehead)
HB CG 1: Hell's Bridgehead CG 1 (Hell's Bridgehead)
Buck1: Welcome to the Jungle (Buckeyes!)
: Apenas Nos Hablamos (Lider)
WP 1: First Blood (Winpak #1)
MM 37: Ninety Night (March Madness 2017 Hollis Partisans Pack)
O73.2: Mission Accomplished (On All Fronts # 73)
O104.2: Send More Pigeons (On All Fronts #104)
ON06: Kempf at Melikhovo (On Top Scenarios)
SP12: Piano Lupo (Schwerpunkt # 1)
MT 5: SI1 version 1.0 (ASL Digest # 7.08)
S22: Another Summer's Day (ASL Starter Kit #3)
26: Diabolical Shrapnel (Dezign Pak 3)
BR1: Ponte Drillo Taking (Biazza Ridge)
BR3: Hunting the Wolf (Biazza Ridge)
BR2: Gorham Assault (Biazza Ridge)
BR CG: Biazza Ridge (Biazza Ridge)
S31: Going to New York! (Operations Special Issue #1)
ASSKB2: Hill Sweet Blues (Battles Magazine #2)
Ponyri #12: Little Katy (Kursk - Devil's Domain)
S47: Not So Disposed (ASL Starter Kit Expansion Pack #1)
BFP-97: Renewed Pressure (BFP 4: Crucible of Steel)
HB3 #1: Last Line Before Oboyan (Hell's Bridgehead 3)
VV 76: X-Men (Vae Victis # 101)
Ponyri #12: Little Katy (Metalgods of Ponyri Devil's Domain)
24: Pressured and Pinned (Devil's Domain Upgrade Kit)
#10: Big Trouble in Little Stalingrad (Major Upham Scenario Pack)
WO18: A Quick Strike (Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2016)
WO19: Through the Dragon's Teeth (Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2016)
178: The Niscemi-Biscari Highway (ASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition))
FT240: Commando Beach 1 (Franc-Tireur #14)
FT241: Commando Beach 2 (Franc-Tireur #14)
FT242: That Bridge Again! (Franc-Tireur #14)
FT243: Send More Pigeons II (Franc-Tireur #14)
ASL GCA 2: Tra Le Spighe Dorate (A25.6 Issue 1)
Designer: Pete Shelling
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
RussianGerman (SS)
70.526315789474%

Overview:

Scenario 1/3 of Broadway to Prokhorovka campaign (page 60 of Journal 3). Both sides chooses their OBs from available groups. The unit list below lists everything available, but the players only get to use about half of them.
Attacker: Russian (183rd Rifle Division with Artillery Support Element and 99th Tank Brigade)
Defender: German (SS) (II SS Panzer Corps/2nd SS Panzergrenadier Regiment/Anti-Tank Battery/Armor and Artillery Support)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: Both     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:24.0 D:10.0
AFVs: A:6
T-34 M43 x 2
T-34 M41 x 3
T-70 x 2
SU-76M x 4
SU-122 x 3

D:9
SPW 251/10
SPW 251/1 x 5
SPW 251/2 x 2
PzKpfw IIIJ
PzKpfw VIE x 2
PzKpfw IVF2 x 3
PzKpfw IVH x 2

Guns: A:2
82mm BM obr. 37 x 2
50mm RM obr. 40 x 3
PTRD-41 ATR x 4
D:2
5cm PaK 38 x 3
7.5cm PaK 40 x 2

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Ov1 w D: BT
Map Board(s): 18 48
Overlays: X10
Errata (source)
BPSSRs apply (see page 60 of Journal 3).MMP
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DateReporterOpponentResultComments
2020-06-19(A) John Gorkowski vs Bill Stoppel Russian winMy Russians narrowly defeated Bill’s Germans in this thriller that demonstrated – yet again – the critical importance of playing through bad dice rolls until your luck changes. Also, remember to resolve collateral attacks against vulnerable PRC when you hit a vehicle with ordnance (D.8); it’s a big deal in this scenario since the Germans have two armor leaders and the luxury of running around CE while the Russian T-34s must be buttoned up to fire.

Most of the SS infantry platoon, with the 9-2 leader, set up in wooden buildings on either side of the road around 48M7. One of half-squads started way back in X2, to facilitate the advance of reinforcements by searching for anti-tank mines. Unknown to me, two 75mm AT Guns, one in the 48Q5 intersection and one in the copse atop the hill at 18P8, stood ready to greet my tankers.

Most Russian infantry started around 18AA10, with a pair of squads near 18AA7 ready to rush the 50mm mortars up the hill. I chose two 82mm MTRs over the OBA and placed them in 48F3 and 18DD9.

The dice betrayed the Russians on the game’s very first roll by immediately triggering rain! On my next player turn, the rain got more intense and never stopped. This misfortune constrained the Russian advance in myriad ways. We couldn’t use smoke and my precious 82mm MTRs suffered an additional +2 to hit throughout the game. Indeed, after three full game turns of firing constantly they had scored only two hits, both ultimately of no consequence. To make matters worse, since my infantry had to pay extra to climb the hills, the 50mm MTRs arrived late, and exhausted. They too racked up an impressive string of near misses, although one did immobilize a German halftrack, until they broke, and then disabled. And, all that firing attracted a German sniper who wounded by best leader.

Still, Ivan soldiered on. Russian infantry rushed into the village around 48J9. A combination of rain and orchard saved them from German small arms fire. Three T-34 M43 and three SU 122 rolled forward in support. That German 75mm AT gun in trees atop 18P8 killed an SU-122 on the hill at 18W6 on turn 1. At the same time, a Tiger and Panzer IVF2 came around the hills to kill a T-34 in 18R5. A few Russian AFV clustered around 48I10 and M10 where the terrain shielded them from German AT gun fire. There was a bit of Russian joy when an Su-122 in 48M9 broke an SS squad in 48N7 via main gun fire.

German halftracks led the reinforcements. Most went straight for 48Y1/X1 to ride the roads for safety. A few drove toward 48T9 where one immobilized on an anti-tank mine. The other Tiger followed close behind to park in 48U10 where he could see my SU-122 in 48M10. The SU-122 used its defensive fire phase to pivot toward the threat. As expected, so soon after moving the Tiger’s first shot missed.

The SU-122 in 48M10 fired HEAT at the Tiger during prep fire and scored a hit! Alas the Tiger’s mighty turret absorbed the blow. Here, I forgot to resolve a specific collateral attack against the CE Tiger’s exposed commander, that would have been a very serious 20+2 shot; see D.8 and C8.31. Remember to resolve those collateral attacks against exposed PRC when you hit the vehicle, especially when firing HEAT! I bet a failure to recall that rule is what has so disadvantaged the Russians in previous plays of this scenario. Without that threat to a CE crew, the leader-rich Germans can really capitalize on the T-34s need to stay buttoned up and get a favorable two-point spread on to hit rolls. Anyway, I digress; the well-led Tiger fired back to kill the SU-122.

By game turn 2, the SS infantry were falling back to the 48P4 and P6 buildings where the combination of grain and rain hindrances made them nearly impossible to hit from a distance. Through a “keyhole” line of sight, my 82mm MRT in 48F3 did manage to hit and break the 9-2 and one of two 6-5-8s in 48P6, but they rallied soon after, before I could take advantage. Getting Russian infantry close enough to do real damage was crazy dangerous given SS firepower. But two 4-4-7s in 48 M6 and N5 fire grouped to put a PTC on a 6-5-8 who failed with an 11 to trigger a booby trap that cut him in half. The Russian MMG went upstairs in 48L8.

By game turn three, we were in a shootout at midfield – the board crease along hex row Q – from east to west. Two of my T-34s had made it to 48O2 and O3, the eastern branch of the village. One broke his main gun, so a Panzer IV came up close and fired but missed. I fixed that main gun in the following rally phase, just in time to kill that audacious Panzer IV. The other T-34 in that pair went fist to cuffs with SS infantry, some of whom managed to approach for close combat, but failed an ATMM check and then succumbed to the tank’s CMG. A berserk Russian infantry squad also joined the fight around that tank and soaked up a fair amount of small arms fire as he rushed forward and laughed it off. On the other side of the field, a hill top Panzer IV in 18Q3 shot and killed a T-70, but a T-34 then popped up alongside to return the favor.

By now, the 9-2 with MMG, LMG, and two 6-5-8s in 48P6 was breaking Russian infantry left and right. So, I rammed a T-34 in there, but it fell into the cellar! Next a T-70 rolled in via bypass and survived a flurry of reaction fire attacks. This sleaze freeze enabled my 5-2-7s to get close. As expected, the 9-2 stack smeared my T-70 in close combat; as hoped, it went up in flames to generate some long overdue smoke. That set the stage for a reversal of fortune.

On German turn 4, a run of really bad German luck overcompensated me for the rain. A Tiger in 48Q1 fired on the “sitting duck” T-34 in 48O2, but broke its gun. Two SS squads, one after the other, then ran into 48P2 so they might place demolition charges on that same said T-34, but he broke them with machine guns and main armament fire. The 9-2 stack in 48P6 used spraying fire against adjacent Russian squads in 48O7 and P7 to hit each with 20 FP. Firing out of smoke from the vehicle wreck certainly hurt, but that IFT roll of 8 was a real gift to the Russians who passed their pin checks, between them they were ready to answer back with 26 FP very soon. And then there was more. The 75mm AT gun in 18P4 fired on the recently victorious T-34 in R2 but missed, then hit with intensive fire, but failed to penetrate. A German 81mm MRT joined in to no effect.

Bill surveyed the scene and folded. The Russians held all the CG victory locations with three GO squads within three hexes of 48Q5. The Germans were down thee Panzer IVs, two SS squads with two more broken, had a broken Tiger, and two immobilized halftracks. And, they were moments away from being on the receiving end of the Russian defensive fire phase.


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